`search`

Pack: monarch-initiative · Endpoint: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/monarch-initiative/mcp

Full-text search across the Monarch biomedical knowledge graph for diseases, genes, phenotypes, and other biolink entities by query string; filter by category (e.g. biolink:Disease) and paginate with limit/offset.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`query`	string	yes
`category`	string	no	biolink:Disease \| biolink:Gene \| biolink:PhenotypicFeature \| …
`limit`	number	no	1-500 (default 20)
`offset`	number	no

Example call

Arguments

{
  "query": "cystic fibrosis",
  "category": "biolink:Disease",
  "limit": 20
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/monarch-initiative/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search","arguments":{"query":"cystic fibrosis","category":"biolink:Disease","limit":20}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const pipeworx = new Pipeworx();

const result = await pipeworx.call('search', {
  "query": "cystic fibrosis",
  "category": "biolink:Disease",
  "limit": 20
});

More examples

{
  "query": "BRCA1",
  "category": "biolink:Gene"
}

Response shape

Field	Type	Description
`results`	array	Search result nodes
`limit`	number	Result limit applied
`offset`	number	Result offset applied
`total`	number	Total matching results

Full JSON Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "description": "Full-text search results from Monarch Initiative",
  "properties": {
    "results": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Search result nodes",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "id": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Node curie identifier"
          },
          "name": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Node name"
          },
          "category": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Biolink category"
          },
          "description": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Node description"
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Result limit applied"
    },
    "offset": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Result offset applied"
    },
    "total": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Total matching results"
    }
  }
}

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config, or use one-click install buttons:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "monarch-initiative": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/monarch-initiative/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

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